Water-heater



(.No Model.)

J. B, WEBSTER.

WATER HEATER.

' o. 289,194. atented Nov. 2-7, 1883-;

V INVENTOR:

I and arrangement ofparts, substantially as herei UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BENNEI wnssrnn, or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

WATER-H EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,194, dated November 27, 1883.

Application filed April 4, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN B. WEBsTER, of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Water-Heater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable heater that can be readily and conveniently used for heating small and large quantities of water in houses where water backs and hot-water boilers are not applied, and in other places in or out of doors where hot water is needed-for instance, by stablemen, dairymen, farmers, and others.

The invention consists of the combination inafter fully set forth and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the'accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view, in perspective, of the heater. Fig. 2 is a similar view at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the heater, and Fig. 4. is asectional elevation of the same.

The chamber or body A of the heater is constructed of sheet metal, with flaring sides and with a broad base, a. In one side is an opening provided with a screw-cap,b, packed,

to make it watertight, and which gives access to the burner for lighting. The closed top a of the body (shown most clearly in Fig. 3) is of copper, and provided with tubes (1, preferably four in number, and equidistant, which extend from the outer edge of the top inward and upward to a tube or pipe, 6, which is the chimney, and is of suitable length. In the top a, between tubes cl, are holes, two between each pair of tubes, that are covered by tight boxes f, from which short tubes 9 extend to the chimney e, below tubes (Z, so as to form an inner set of tubes, that will become highly heated by the flames. To the opposite sides of the body A are connected tubes h h, which extend upward a suitable distance, but are shorter than the chimney. These tubes h are for supplying air to the burner, and should be large enough to insure the burning of the oil with a strong blue flame. On their upper ends are deflectors h, for catchingthe air from all sides and turning it down the tubes. On the chimney e is a chimney-cap, e, for promoting draft.

The burner, which may be an oil-burner similar to a vapor-burner or the burners of oil-stoves, is contained in the body A, 0011- nected to a pipe, 13, that extends in through the side, and to the outer end of piped is con- To heat a quantity of water with this heater,

oil or gasoline is to be placed in the reservoir, cap 1) unscrewed forlighting the burner, and the cap replaced after the flame is properly regulated. The heater is then to be placed on the bottom of a receptacle contain ing the water to be heated, which may be a tub, half-barrel, or boiler, though a deep and narrow receptacle is preferable, in order to get the body ofwater above the heater.

With the construction of the heater as described (the copper top part, 0, being directly affected by the several strong blue jets of flame, and constituting the principal heating agent) the body and tubes become highly heated by the flames, and the water having access to an extensive heating-surface, but a short time is required to boil or heat the water.

The operation can be readily carried out in the house or elsewhere without dirt or smoke, and water heated for bathing purposes, for

farm and other operations, at less expense and ries of convergent pipes g (2, connecting with a co1111no11 smoke-eXit,o11e series beingarranged' 3. The water-heater consisting of closed below or above the other, substantially as and body' A, containing an oil-burner, chimney e, for the purpose set forth. connecting-tubes d g, supply-pipes h, oil-res- 2. 111 a water-heater. the heating-chamber ervoirl, and oil-pipe k, combined and arranged 5 having the smoke and draft tubes, and the I substantially as described.

closed to roviclecl with a vertical rim or T ,T T r a ,v v 1 7 flange, sa l losed top forming the bottom and JOHL h E l DB5 1 said flange forming the sides of a supplemental Witnesses: or upper open water-chamber, snbstantiall y as 0. WHITE,

10 and for the purpose set forth. JOHN MCCOY. 

